Japan, U.S. to cooperate on maintaining peace, stability in Taiwan Strait

Aug 05, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"His ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has pledged to double military spending to 2"
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-4% Liberal
"Pelosi arrived in Japan following a visit to South Korea on Thursday, where she vowed support to denuclearise North Korea."
Positive
22% Conservative
"Pelosi met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his official residence, where Kishida said the two allies would work together to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, a key shipping route."
Positive
10% Conservative
"U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in Japan on the last stage of an Asian trip that included a brief and unaounced stop in Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing considers its own, in the highest-level visit by a U.S. official in 25 years."
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4% Conservative
"Kishida told Biden at the time that Japan would substantially increase its defence spending."
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0% Conservative
"While visiting Japan in May, U.S. President Joe Biden said he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan - a comment that appeared to stretch the limits of the U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity towards the island."
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-22% Liberal
"I have informed speaker Pelosi that the fact China's ballistic missiles had landed near Japanese water including EEZ threaten our national safety and security and that Japan had strongly condemned such actions, Kishida said."
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-24% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : His ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has pledged to double military spending to 2% of GDP.(Reporting by Elaine Lies, Mariko Katsumura and Kentaro Sugiyama; Editing by David Dolan and Stephen Coates)

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